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The Deepest Song is Silence

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The Deepest Sound is Silence
An Inner-World Exploration

Stillness has a sound of its own.  There is nothing and there is everything. There is all and there is nothing.  Silence simply is. 

When we purposefully sit and empty our mind, there’s room for us to experience, absorb and learn from the Core Essence.  When we sit in stillness, we quiet our mind and invite the soft comforting sound of silence to wash through us.  

We still our thoughts. Lay aside our worries and concerns.  

And simply be.

Be nothing.  

Be everything.

Be.

Even in silence, there is sound  

Sit mindfully with the sound of silence.  Empty your mind and enter into the All-That-Is that is youand disappear your body.  Feel and experience yourself as simple energy – resonating, shining, peaceful, serene energy.  In silence.  Simply contemplate silence.

Silence creates space

When you sit in stillness when you empty your mind and sit in silence, the vast gifts of the Unseen World become apparent.  Move above the thoughts.  Embrace the images. Feel the feelings.  Float. Absorb.  Experience. Be the vibration that you are.  Be in the silence.  And listen. 

Listen with your spirit

Sit in silence and listen with your whole self.  Simply be.  Be the purity of nature.  Be the power of vibration.  Be the expression of oneness. The All-That-Is.

We are nothing.  We are everything.

I am nothing. I am all. 

Deeper Song Affirmation

I mindfully place myself in contemplative silence and become one with All-That-Is. 

Deeper Song Process

  • Purposefully decide you are going to disappear into silence.
  • Sit or lie in a quiet place and move your attention within. 
  • Notice how loud the silence is. 
  • Move your intention to focus within until you are aware of yourself as pure vibration.  No sound, just vibration. 
  • Be that. 
  • Experience yourself as being All-That-Is.  Lose your awareness of being in your body suit.  Become the Emptiness That Holds Everything.
  • Repeat

To Sing a Deeper Song, Consider:

You ARE Vibration and Why it Matters

The Packed Potential Before the Beginning  

The Pillar of Light Process 

How to Walk a Path of Inner Stillness 

How Do You Make Your Actions Lasting and Meaningful? 

Make Use of Emptiness

Be an Instrument for Experiencing

Broaden and Deepen
Your Personal Journey 

I help spiritual adventurers explore the Unseen World so that we broaden and deepen our personal journey and learn to share our discoveries with others.   We are guides and way-showers with our light held high.

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Play Your Body Song 

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Play Your Body Song
An Inner-world Exploration

In Qi Gong, there is a lovely practice called cupping. You cup your hands and “cup” your body in light taps along your meridians.  Up your arms, down your legs, on your torso.  It’s a lovely way to wake your body up from its night’s rest and get your circulation going.

I also use drumming as a vibrational healing practice.  I drum whatever rhythmical patterns come from within me.

It happens to be an interesting pairing – play rhythms on your body with the palms of your hands in order to stimulate the circulation and the meridians.

If you play your Body Song right before you step into the shower you will find that your bare body has different sounds in different places, which is a fun discovery all in itself.  Using your body as the drum, play some rhythms and enjoy the sound and the sensations. Remember to also swing your arms so you can tap on the organs closer to your back. 

I call this my Body Song because it offers rhythmic patterns to my ears and gets my body all primed for the day. 

Will you play your Body Song today?

Deeper Song Affirmation

I play my Body Song every day. 

Deeper Song Process

  • Using your slightly cupped hands, begin to beat a gentle rhythm up and down one arm.  Do the same to the other arm. 
  • With this same slightly cupped palm, move over your legs and torso. 
  • Swing your arms so you reach your back and give it a tap.
  • Experiment with rhythms and length of time and notice how alert and energetic you become. 
  • Repeat as many times each day as you wish.  (Perhaps not right before bed!)

To Sing a Deeper Song, Consider:

The Intentional OM HUM  

The Light Vibration of One 

The Pillar of Light Process

Energy Cannot Be Destroyed – Only Re-Purposed 

Raise Your Vibration With Serenity

Raise Your Vibration Through Visioning

Raise Your Vibration and Change the World. 

I help transformational thinkers raise their personal vibration so that we, collectively, can raise the consciousness of our planet.

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Unleash the Power of a Creative Spiritual Practice  

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Unleash the Power of a Creative Spiritual Practice
An Inner-world Exploration

Your spiritual practice should be eclectic.  It should reflect you – what you believe in, what you need in your life right now.  However, there are four elements to address as you continue to create and evolve your personal spiritual practice: regular practice, receptive atmosphere, intention and vibrational actions.

Regular practice is the foundation of your spiritual work

The truth is, you can add a bit of spiritual practice anytime, anyplace, but to elevate your awareness and deepen your connection, you need to create and maintain this spiritual practice.  

Begin your day with inner work.  Whether it’s a sitting meditative practice or an active meditative practice like yoga or Qi Gong, or both, you have control over your mornings, you can get up and stay tuned into yourself and to your inner world. 

In the evening, you can add an element of spiritual practice when you move from workday to home. When I learned Transcendental Meditation fifty years ago, it was suggested we meditate 20 minutes upon arriving home in order to make that transition from work to family. 

You can create another spiritual practice at bedtime, in gratitude for the day and in preparation for inner work during the night of rest. 

Create a receptive atmosphere 

For your spiritual practice, choose a place that feels tranquil to you and use it regularly. The energy in that space will build, the vibration will heighten, and the mere space will become a source of serenity and nurturing for you. 

Sit on a chair or cross-legged and use a mudra (hand position) of your choosing to center you. Begin with hands lying palm up on your lap, one hand lying on top of the other, your thumbs touching.  Experiment with mudras to find what calls to you. 

Set an intention for your meditative session

Intention is the most powerful tool we have in all our inner work. It sets our course and is the wind beneath our wings. 

What’s the purpose of your period of inner work?  To heal?  Clarity around a choice or action? To receive guidance from the unseen world? To bless the day or offer gratitude at the day’s end?  Perhaps your intention is to raise your vibration or heighten the impact of your illumined service.   

Consciously set an intention for every meditative session.

Use the power of vibration to heal and balance

We’re all one vibration.  We communicate through vibration. Your spiritual practice can creatively contain many forms of vibration. 

Create vocal vibrational sounds

First, simply sit quietly and breathe. Notice your breathing. As you exhale, release any tension or worry. Empty your mind and sit in silent stillness. 

Then begin to hum.  Whatever note you hum, notice where it vibrates in your body.  Try different pitches and see where they resonate.  Direct the hum to your hands or feet.  Direct the hum to any part of your body that needs balancing. Just hum.  Let the melodies simply appear, and experiment with directing the vibration of the tone.

You can focus sound on your chakras for opening and balancing them.  You can send sound to the world, or a person or a situation.  Take a slow deep breath, set an intention and hum the vibration where you want it to go. 

Experiment with vibrational instruments

Find the vibrational instruments that resonate with you. We’re talking drums, flutes, bells, gongs, rattles, clapping your hands, tapping a rhythm on the arm of your chair, toning, chanting.  This is where you do the most experimenting.  

Create a ceremony that is uniquely yours 

A ceremony anchors your intention.  Create one that works for you. You might honor the seven directions – East, South, West, North, Above, Below and middle world.  I also honor the Stone Clan and Nature. I use a drum and I drum and sing. I see that drum as connecting me to all the worlds. 

I have two rain-sticks.  I use them to welcome in the blue light of power, the green light of healing and the white light of unconditional love. 

I use my small Tibetan gong to send energy to my past, my present and future. I use my Tibetan cymbals to send it to my home, the people of the earth and the planet.  I use my rattle to shake around my home and send positive energy to all the crystals and groupings and to my cats and plants.  

I give an intention to each vibrational creator I use.  Gong, claves, thumb piano, flutes, rattles, bells.  Listen to what you’re using and intuitively find its purpose. 

The Manifestation Box

I have a lidded raffia box with a wonderful dragon on the front that I use for a manifestation box.  On pieces of paper, I write what I want to bring forth. It can be specific physical healing, it can be ideas like wisdom and insight, healing the planet or simply an intention like “raised vibration.” Each day in my spiritual practice I open the box and read the intentions I’ve chosen.  With intention send positive energy to the choices you’ve made. 

Don’t forget the rocks!

Crystals hold a higher vibration and have guiding messages for you. Whether you hold a rock in your hand or place it on your altar, listen to the message it offers. 

My space is a tad full of crystals so I bring a few to the forefront for a week at a time and work with them and listen to their messages and advice and gifts.  Hold crystals in your left hand to receive. You may get a sensation in your body for you to interpret or simply pay attention to the thoughts that show up.  Learn to hear and interpret the messages of the crystals. 

Create vibrational movement

Movement is vibrational. Whether it’s Qi Gong or Yoga or T’ai chi or simply moving in rhythm to a chant, add conscious movement to your spiritual practice. You can also go outside and dance in nature.

Create a sacred altar

In the sacred space you have chosen for your spiritual practice, perhaps you place a simple table or plant stand to hold objects that resonate with you.  My “altars” are all around me.  One grouping is on the shelf in front of the desk that I sit at a lot.  Another altar surface is on a table under the window beside me. I look out the window to play my flute and work with other objects. It also happens to have a great place for some of my drums underneath. There is another low chest near the chair from which I drum and play a lot of my vibrational instruments. And my desk surface itself is full of crystals and sound instruments because this is where I spend most of my time.  This is where I sit to take my shamanic journeys because I change and type them in. 

Journal

Whether you journal by hand or on the computer, when you write down what you remember from your meditation it makes room for the next layer to be made evident.  Journaling also allows you to look back at your progress, or when something major happens, you can identify what you were doing to help that along. 

You can journal at the end of the day in reflection and gratitude.  You can journal to set your intentions for the day.  Record your visions your insights, your inner messages. It brings them more deeply into your awareness. 

Checklist for creating a unique and powerful spiritual practice

  • Regular practice is the foundation of your spiritual work. Pick some times and stick with them.
  • Create a receptive atmosphere of uninterrupted quiet.
  • Create vocal vibrational sounds and direct them for healing.
  • Experiment with vibrational instruments. Create power songs as you play if they offer themselves. 
  • Create a ceremony to begin and end each spiritual session that is uniquely yours. 
  • Don’t forget the rocks!
  • Create vibration movement.
  • Create and evolve your unique sacred altar.
  • Journal for deeper awareness.

Spend your day mindfully

Enter your day with mindfulness. Walk through your day with mindfulness and end your day in mindfulness. Find opportunities to reflect within throughout your day.

Your life is your spiritual practice!!!

Live it mindfully.

Deeper Song Affirmation

I create a spiritual practice that serves the uniqueness of me. 

Deeper Song Process

  • Look at what you do in your spiritual practice now.  What are your favorite things to do?  Begin there. 
  • Explore some of the ideas above – toning, sound instruments, movements and see what suits you. 
  • Add that. 

To Sing a Deeper Song, Consider:

You ARE Vibration and Why it Matters

How to Interpret the Messages from Within

Make Use of Emptiness

Build a Launching Pad for Your Inner work

Why You May Want to Have an Altar

The Power of a Ceremony of Releasing

The Pillar of Light Process 

The Intentional OM HUM

Energy Cannot Be Destroyed – Only Re-Purposed 

The Light Vibration of One

Broaden and Deepen
Your Personal Journey 

I help spiritual adventurers explore the Unseen World so that we broaden and deepen our personal journey and learn to share our discoveries with others.   We are guides and way showers with our light held high.

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To Gain Strength, Renew the Root

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To Gain Strength, Renew the Root
An Inner-world Exploration

What exactly is my root and how do I go about strengthening it? 

A tree grows from the root.  The root expands and the tree grows taller and wider.  So if I, here in my body suit, want to grow stronger and taller and wider, how, exactly do I strengthen my root?

Your root holds your values

Each choice we make reflects our values.  Am I inclusive?  Am I compassionate? Do I look for the positive around me?  Notice how you’re responding to a new situation and examine your values to see if they need adjusting or if you simply need to stay true to the values you choose. 

Your root is your gifts

We’re given certain tools to work with in our lifetime.  Gifts of passion, ability, the calling of our heart.  To grow your root, look past your daily life and use the gifts you’ve been given.  

Your root is your passion

There’s a core passion that calls to you.  It may have gotten lost in the shuffle of life.  Perhaps it was something you used to do.  Perhaps it’s something you’ve just begun to do.  Perhaps it’s a passion you’re using now but are ready to take in another direction. In whatever way you follow your passion, you strengthen your root. 

Your root is in your spiritual practice

We know how to strengthen and care for our bodies, but do we actively take steps to strengthen and care for our inner life, our spiritual life?  Examine new forms of spiritual expression.  Prune out old roots of spirituality-by-rote and send off new shoots of exploration to find resonate ways to nurture and nourish your spiritual life. Expand your spiritual practice. Get creative. 

Your root is your choice

Each moment, we have a choice.  Each moment, we make a choice.  Sometimes they are conscious choices. Sometimes not.  Work to make certain that your choices are “aware” ones, choices that reflect your values, your spiritual path, your passion and your gifts.  The power for growth and the direction you go in is a moment-to-moment conscious choice.  Make wise and thoughtful decisions. 

Growth lies in self-awareness

Listen to your passion, explore your gifts, hold every choice up to your values, and move with increasing awareness through the path of life. 

Deeper Song Affirmation

I care for and cultivate my roots.

Deeper Song Process

  • Imagine yourself as a tree.  Are you as tall as you want to be?  Are your branches as strong as you would like them to be?
  • What steps will you take to strengthen the roots that support you?
  • Do that. 

To Sing a Deeper Song, Consider:

Nurture the Garden Of Self 

Create a Releasing Ceremony for Yourself 

Make Use of Emptiness

Individual Curiosity and a Willingness to Change

The Packed Potential Before the Beginning

Build a Launching Pad for Your Inner work

 

Be an Instrument for Experiencing

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Be an Instrument for Experiencing
An Inner-world Exploration

“We must transform ourselves into the instruments for experiencing
the deepest spiritual essence of life.”Deng Ming-Dao

I loved that idea but I had no idea how to do it.  Become an instrument – one that has the ability to deepen the experience of my spiritual essence.  

Well, wow. I want to do that. 

What is the form of your instrument?

First of all, the instrument is me.  Me, here in my body suit, and you, there in yours.  We have the ability to experience on the physical plane and we also have the ability to go exploring on the spiritual plane – out into the Unseen World which happens to make up 95% of everything. 

How do you play your instrument?

You have been given gifts to help you play your instrument.  I write.  I write to figure things out.  That’s how I learn.  That’s how I go exploring in the unseen world.  Sure I have practices – shamanic journeying, raising my vibration, mudras, meditation, ceremony. Those are the tools I use to allow my instrument (me) to experience the deepest purest essence of life.  Or at least begin to. 

What do you seek to experience?

What is the deepest spiritual essence of life?  What does it look like?  What does it feel like?

The experience of the deepest spiritual essence of life will be different for each of us.  It may be found in the serenity of deep meditation or the exhilarating high that comes with accomplishing a physical goal.  

And because we are exploring, we don’t exactly know what we will find. 

Accept what shows up

Trust the Universe to provide you with what you need.  If I need an idea, it will show up.  If I need a new opportunity, it will show up.  It’s up to me to be aware enough of my own path to make wise choices.  You don’t have to act on everything.  But it is there for you to consider.  As you make choices, your path will be more defined.  

Look for the auspicious signs

“Auspicious signs are not a superstition, but a confirmation. They are a response,” continues Deng Ming Dao.  

Perhaps I will pause at the end of my day and journal about the “auspicious signs” that showed up for me that day.  What is the Unseen World confirming for me?  How is it directing me?

I simply need to observe, absorb and accept the guidance of the Unseen World within me.

Deeper Song Affirmation

I learn to recognize the guiding responses of the Universe.

Deeper Song Process

  • How do you get your messages from the unseen world?  Is it a voice in your head, a simply knowing, a recognizing of a new possibility?  Probably all of those.  See if you can identify your personalized form of communication from the Unseen World.
  • Cultivate that.  My inner voice is so loud that I know to stop and write down the core idea it offers. Often I stop and try to answer the question I have formed about what that phrase or idea means to me and how I might use it. 
  • Act on a few of these nudges and notice what happens.  
  • Keep exploring. 

To Sing a Deeper Song, Consider:

The Light Vibration of One

The Pillar of Light Process 

Another Part of You – The Unseen World 

How to Interpret the Messages from Within 

When I See Myself As Light

Broaden and Deepen
Your Personal Journey 

I help spiritual adventurers explore the Unseen World
so that we broaden and deepen our personal journey an
d learn to share our discoveries with others.
We are guides and wayshowers with our light held high.

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Deeper Song Insights and Applications,
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